In-Person Private Lessons:
in my NYC (West Village) home: $35 per 20 minutes (40 min minimum)
in yours: add $1 per minute for travel time
Online Private Lessons:
$30 per 20 minutes (Zoom, Skype, or Facetime)
CONTACT LISA FOR MORE INFORMATION
Audition, Actor and Class Coaching:
As Music Director for the Broadway show Indecent, I auditioned actors, singers, and musicians. If you are a string player auditioning for a show, movie, college, or band, I know what they want! I can help you polish your performance (in any style).
If you are an actor portraying a violinist, I can teach you to look like you play! I’ve done that for Steven Soderbergh and several other directors.
For classical violin teachers: let’s introduce your students to Irish, American, or Klezmer fiddling, with a fiddle styles workshop.
If you are auditioning for, or playing in a production of Indecent, coaching is available by me or other of the Broadway musicians.
Professional courtesy rates are available.
CONTACT LISA FOR MORE INFORMATION
Ongoing Klezmer Zoom classes for all instruments:
Mondays at 12:30pmET, and at 8:00pmET
- tunes, ear training, ornaments, chords…
Tuesdays at 1:00pmET
- detailed ornamentation and phrasing work
Monthly subscriptions include: a free trial class, weekly classes, an occasional mini private lesson if needed, and access to an ever growing library of workshop and archival recordings.
Subscriptions:
Join one class: $120 per month
Join one class, and audit unlimited others: $160 per month
Participate in Unlimited Classes: $220 per month
Library access plus one Drop-in class, or a 20 minute private, per month: $70 per month
Drop-in fee: - $35 (does not include library access - please be prepared to record from an external device)
Barters and temporary hardship discounts are possible!
Subscribe below, or come take your first (free) class, and then subscribe!
CONTACT FOR ZOOM LINKS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Lisa is the VERY BEST teacher I have ever had the pleasure to learn with (and since I am over 70, that includes many teachers over many years). -Robin Mader, KlezKanada
Why and How I Teach
Watching a student absorb and process information brings me unbelievable joy. Witnessing even the smallest “aha” is enthralling and consuming, and I think that that is perhaps the greatest gift I give to my students.
My main goal is to train your ear so that you can not only learn tunes easily, but hear the ornaments and phrasing. If you can hear them, you can play them. I have very specific techniques that have been honed over a lifetime of playing and teaching. I have never failed to teach a student to play by ear.
We learn melodies and wander off to different aspects of the music - chords, or ornaments, or anything else that seems pertinent at the moment. I give everyone the attention that they personally need, so if you already play by ear I will challenge you in other ways.
CONTACT FOR ZOOM LINKS and come take your first class (free.)
Lisa on DVD!
Available from Homespun Music in hard copy as well as digital download. Click here form more info.
Check out a sample of the DVD in the video on the right
DVD cover by: Happy Traum